Defeat Quotes - Page 16

• To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

  Peter Sellers

  Labels, Comedy, Subjects

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.

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• We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Causes, Reason Why

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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Swim

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

  Vernon Howard

  Light, Deceiving

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Taken, Butterfly

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• The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Law

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.127, Univ of California Press

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• Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sleep, Misery, Cheat

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• It's not a defeat nor an obstacle that is going to get in the way of our dream, my dream continues, the journey continues

  Lyoto Machida

  Dream, Journey, Way

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• The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Fighting, Trying, Devil

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• You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

  Maya Angelou

  Uplifting, Love Life, Laughing

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• We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Evil, Suffering

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• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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• The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Lying, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

  Melita Norwood

  People, Ordinary, Cost

  Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

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• He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Victory, Half

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• A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Beloved Community, Understanding

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

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• How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Past, Light

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• So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
  have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

  Herbert Hoover

  Years, Feelings, Mind

  "Hoover Off the Record". Book by Theodore Joslin, 1934.

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• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except
  from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Persistence, Effort, Trying

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Believe, Heart

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.50, Revell

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• I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

  Rose Kennedy

  Age, Knows, Weariness

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• In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives.

  Diriye Osman

  Summer, Sweet, Night

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• If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.

  Joyce Meyer

  Satan, Wells, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.

  Randy Wayne White

  Party, Ideas, Suffering

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